Per Diem RN-Nurse Practitioner

Kaweah Health is a publicly owned, community healthcare organization that provides comprehensive health services to the greater Visalia area in central California. With more than 5,000 employees, Kaweah Health provides state-of-the-art medicine and high-quality preventive services in our acute care hospital, specialized health centers and clinics. Our eight-campus healthcare district has 613 beds and offers comprehensive health services across a broad continuum of care.

It takes a special person to work for Kaweah Health. We serve a region where the needs are great, which makes the rewards even greater. Every day, we care for people facing unique challenges and in need of healing. Throughout it all, our focus is to make a difference, and we do - in the health of our patients, our loved ones, and our community.

Benefits Eligible
Not Benefits Eligible

Work Shift
Day - 8 Hour or less Shift (United States of America)

Department
7390 Professional Services-APP

The Nurse Practitioner is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of patients/families, nurses and the healthcare system by positively influencing patient outcomes utilizing evidence based practice and promoting excellent bedside practice through collaboration, leadership and mentoring.

QUALIFICATIONS

License /Certification

Required:

CA Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Nurse Practitioner Furnishing Number

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration

CA RN license

BLS

Preferred:
National Nurse Practitioner certification from American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) or American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC); for Hospice Advanced Practice Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (ACHPN).

Education
Preferred: MSN or DNP

Experience

Required:

One year of recent RN specialty experience in an adult, critical care, or medical-surgical setting.
For Hospice: two or more years of palliative care experience with patients at end of life.

Preferred:
One year of recent practice as a Nurse Practitioner with an emphasis in adult assessment and management of medical and/or surgical conditions.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Must complete credentialing through Medical Staff Interdisciplinary Practice Committee.
Excellent written and oral communication skills and effective interpersonal relationships.
Critical thinking, creative thinking, and creative skill in problem solving.
Computer literate.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential

Responsible for enhancing Patient Throughput throughout the Medical Center and Chronic Disease Management Clinic.

Uses knowledge and assessments of patients to design, implement and evaluate plans of patient care related to specialty area. Uses advanced theoretical and empirical knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and health assessment:

Manages populations with disease states and non-disease based etiologies to improve and to promote health care outcomes.

Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team on most complex patients within specialty area on a consistent basis.

Focuses on population health management across the care continuum.

Collaborates between the medical staff, nursing unit and ancillary departments to facilitate problem-solving.

Designs, implements, and evaluates innovative individual and/or population-based programs of care to achieve high quality, cost-effective outcomes:

Provides relevant patient instruction and education.

Coordinates patient care including ordering, interpreting, and evaluating laboratory tests and radiographic studies to expedite treatment. Follows up on all abnormal findings.

Orders transfers within the hospital or to other facilities to the appropriate level of care.

Consults with medical staff, medical residents, nursing, case management, social work and clinical documentation staff as needed to meet documentation and throughput goals.

Completes history and physical or medical screening exam, discharge summary/instructions and provides patient prescriptions as indicated to enhance throughput.

Documents the necessary components in the medical record to meet documentation standards for the assigned DRG or APR-DRG, including appropriate patient status and level of care.

Documents and orders the necessary components to meet CMS, core measure and Value-Based purchasing requirements.

Serves as a leader/consultant/mentor/change agent in advancing the practice of nursing among other nurses and across organizations to achieve outcomes:

Utilizes direct clinical practice to consult, educate, coach, and mentor staff nurses in achieving optimum patient outcomes.

Serves as a change agent in health care settings by developing high-quality health care standards, assisting in the implementation of standards, order sets, clinical pathways, and facilitating goal setting while measuring achievements, and evaluating outcomes.

Advances nursing practice through innovative evidence-based interventions, best-practice guidelines, and modification of professional standards and organizational policies that direct the care of nursing personnel and other…